Highly-decorated Gulf War general found with thousands of obscene child porn images let off with suspended sentence

A high-profile Gulf War general has received a suspended prison sentence for downloading child pornography.

Raymond Germanos, a French military commander who worked with British and other allied forces during the conflict in the early 1990s, pleaded guilty to obtaining thousands of obscene images.

The 68-year-old, who had an unblemished military career which also saw him doing active service in Bosnia, received a ten-month prison sentence and was ordered to pay one euro in symbolic damages to child protection charities.